Curiosidades

A preocupação com a qualidade de vida e o meio ambiente não está mais restrita às organizações norte-americanas e européias. O setor empresarial brasileiro incorporou essa tendência. Seguindo esse ritmo, a Paraibuna Embalagens investe constantemente em inovações que buscam soluções para corresponder essa nova demanda. A empresa, utilizando-se do seu …

The European Commission is proposing a comprehensive review of environment policy. EIS reports that the thematic strategies in this area stem from its new approach aiming to improve EU law-making, simplify and clarify existing rules and propose less cumbersome framework legislation where new legislation is deemed necessary. They seek to …

Cascade Engineering has announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind waste container equipped with electronic tags that will help municipalities and waste collection companies operate their waste management processes more efficiently and cost-effectively. The announcement follows the conclusion of a large-scale pilot programme in the City of Philadelphia. Cascade‘‘s "smart" waste …

The EPA‘‘s Office of Environmental Enforcement (OEE) today published its report on The Nature and Extent of Unauthorised Waste Activity in Ireland. Focusing on illegal waste activity since the introduction of the Waste Management Act 1996, the report concludes that large-scale illegal dumping of the type that occurred in Co. …

Earlier this year, Narita International Airport Corp. (NAA) announced that it had formulated an Eco-Airport Master Plan, which defines detailed environmental preservation activities aiming to make the airport environmentally-friendly Japan for Sustainability reports that the plan is an airport-wide initiative, led by the Eco-Airport Planning Developing Council, consisting of about …

The US National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) has announced a Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) recycling rate of 21.6% and a collected volume of 1.03 billion pounds for PET post consumer containers in the United States for the year ended December 31, 2004. This is the highest recycling rate for …

How Can I Recycle? Every year, each Londoner produces over a tonne of waste – this is likely to be the equivalent of 200 black bin bags each*. There are over 7 million people in London each contributing to this, between them generating a theoretical 1.5 billion black bags of …

The newspaper European Voice covered the important, topical issue of the revision to the EU Waste Framework Directive (WFD), dedicating several pages to the consequences of the proposed changes. Here are some relevant extracts. Europe‘‘s war on waste The European Commission is preparing to overhaul the waste framework directive as …

Interfax-China reports that district level officials in Shanghai have blocked Loyalty Enterprises Group from building an electronics recycling plant for more than a year due to fears the facility will damage the local environment, a Loyalty Enterprises official said Friday. Loyalty Enterprises said last year it would establish an electronics …

A governmental committee has been established to discuss a mandatory system for collecting and recycling used car batteries, and its first meeting was held on May 11, 2005. Japan for Sustainability (JfS) reports that the committee consists of the members of the Central Environment Council, an advisory panel to the …